Citizenship and Transformative Human Rights Education: Surveys as ‘Praxis’ in the São Paulo Periphery

Abstract

In Latin America, citizenship is often viewed as a struggle for rights and has often been won through ground-up movements. For this reason, a transformative human rights education framework is useful for considering the roles and processes of citizenship education in Latin America. Using a case study of a programme that teaches about the right to education to disadvantaged youth from the Sao Paulo periphery, this article also highlights the use of surveys as a Frereian pedagogical tool in transformative human rights and citizenship education.